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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4642447, member: 96898&quot;]As far as I see, the latest substantial piece of research on the coinage of the Gallic Empire is Jerome Mairat&#039;s dissertation (Oxford, Wolfson College, 2014, online <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f" rel="nofollow">here</a>), which includes an extremely detailed catalogue and an image appendix suitable to begin a die study. Mairat has, at least in my eyes, very good evidence to support his thesis that Trier was the main mint of the Gallic Empire. He thus dismisses the &quot;curly hair theory&quot; on Cologne and Lyon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, following Mairat&#039;s argument, your coin as well as mine are both from Trier:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1147163[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Postumus, Gallic Roman Empire, AR antoninian, 262–266 AD, Trier mint. Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; bust of Postumus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: MONETA AVG; Moneta, draped, standing l., holding scales in r. hand and cornucopiae in l. hand. 23mm, 2.96g. Ref: Mairat 246–7/320–1; RIC V Postumus 75/315.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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